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Cornell  College  Bulletin 


Vol.  XVIII  MOUNT  VERNON,  IOWA,  MAY,  1917  No.  12 


Two  Noteworthy 
Recognitions  of 
Cornell's  Educa¬ 
tional  Standing 


Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae 

Pages  Three  to  Seven 

General  Education  Board 

Pages  Seven  and  Eight 

Miscellaneous  News 

Pages  Nine  to  Twelve 


/7]e  nee  men 


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Published  monthly  by  the  College  and  entered  at  the  post  office  at  Mt. 
Vernon,  Iowa,  as  second  class  mail  matter. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 


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PERSONAL  NOTES 


President  Charles  W.  Flint  delivered  the  Convocation  address  at 
the  State  University  of  Iowa  at  its  last  Convocation.  The  invitations 
for  such  engagements  away  from  home  are  more  numerous  than  can 
be  accepted.  He  rarely  gets  a  chance  to  spend  a  week-end  in  Mount 
Vernon. 

Professor  W.  H.  Norton  contributed  a  35  page  paper  to  the 
March  Journal  of  Geology  on  “The  Classification  of  Brecchia.” 

Professor  John  E.  Stout  will  conduct  several  courses  in  the  depart¬ 
ment  of  Education  at  the  University  of  Chicago  this  summer. 

Professor  George  H.  Betts  lectured  at  the  Wisconsin  State 
Teachers  Association  among  several  others,  has  competed  the  Moral 
Code  for  the  training  of  youth  which  he  was  appointed  by  the  State 
Superintendent  to  prepare  as  Iowa’s  representative  in  a  contest,  and 
has  published  a  book  on  “Classroom  Methods  and  Management”. 

Professors  Nicholas  Knight  and  F.  M.  McGaw  presented  papers 
at  the  meeting  of  the  Iowa  Academy  of  Science  at  Grinnell. 

Professor  Evelyn  C.  Riley,  of  the  chair  of  Latin,  has  entered  into 
an  agreement  by  which  the  college  will  be  deprived  of  her  efficient 
work  in  her  present  position.  The  wedding  is  to  be  in  June  and 
Bishop  Thomas  Nicholson  of  Chicago  is  the  fortunate  man. 

Clara  F.  Chassell,  ’12,  has  been  appointed  psychologist  in  the 
Horace  Mann  School  of  Teachers  College,  Columbia  University. 

Professor  Clyde  Tull  be¬ 
gan  his  work  in  the  depart¬ 
ment  of  English  at  the  be¬ 
ginning  of  the  second  se¬ 
mester  of  this  year,  follow¬ 
ing  the  resignation  of  Pro¬ 
fessor  J.  M.  Bachelor.  Pro¬ 
fessor  Tull  graduated  from 
De  Pauw,  1905,  was  high 
school  principal  for  one  year, 
took  the  A.  M.  degree  at 
Harvard,  1909,  was  profes¬ 
sor  in  the  University  of 
Idaho  for  four  years,  travel¬ 
led  and  studied  abroad  for  a 
year,  and  was  since  1915 
professor  of  English  at  Da¬ 
kota  Wesleyan  University. 
He  came  to  Cornell  from 
Columbia  University  where 
he  was  spending  a  year  in 
advanced  study.  Mrs.  Tull 
was  also  studying  in  New 
York  where  she  completed 
her  work  before  coming  to 
Mount  Vernon. 

Prof.  Charles  R.  Keyes 
will  teach  the  courses  in 
Professor  Clyde  Tull  German  at  State  Teachers 

College  at  Cedar  Falls  during  the  summer  session. 


Cornell  in  the  Association  of 
Collegiate  Alumnae 


ASSOCIATION  OF  COLLEGIATE  ALUMNAE 
Gertrude  S.  Martin,  Executive  Secretary, 

934  Stewart  Ave.,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

(Seal)  April  18,  1917 

My  dear  President  Flint, — 

I  am  happy  to  inform  you  that  at  the  recent  convention  of  the 
Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae  held  in  Washington  the  graduates 
of  Cornell  College  were  made  eligible  by  a  unanimous  vote,  to  mem¬ 
bership  in  the  Association.  We  shall  wish  shortly  to  send  to  your 
alumnae  a  communication  inviting  them  to  join  the  Association  and 
assist  in  the  work  we  have  in  hand.  I  am  enclosing  herewith  circu¬ 
lars  that  will  give  you  information  about  the  assocation  and  its  work. 
Very  sincerely  yours, 

(Signed)  Gertrude  S.  Martin, 

President  C.  W.  Flint,  Executive  Secretary. 

Cornell  College,  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa. 


CORNELL  COLLEGE 
Mount  Vernon,  Iowa 

April  21  1917 

Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Martin, 

934  Stewart  Avenue,  Ithaca,  New  York. 

Dear  Mrs.  Martin: 

We  are  very  much  pleased  to  receive  the  news  of  our  unanimous 
election  to  membership  in  the  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae  at 
the  recent  meeting  in  Washington.  This  is  an  honor  which  we  highly 
appreciate,  and  which,  I  am  sure,  will  be  of  great  benefit  to  our  alum¬ 
nae  and  to  our  college.  We  hope  that  in  our  modest  way  we,  too,  may 
also  contribute  to  the  success  of  your  Association,  and  that  a  large 
number  of  our  alumnae  may  immediately  avail  themselves  of  the 
privilege  of  membership. 

'I  shall  send  you  within  two  or  three  days  a  list  of  our  alumnae 
with  their  addresses.  I  am  enclosing  herewith  draft  of  a  letter  as  you 
suggested. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)  Chas.  W.  Flint. 

The  above  correspondence  will  be  welcome  and  enjoyable  reading 
to  Cornellians  as  it  is  a  very  noteworthy  recognition  of  the  standards 
and  standing  of  Cornell  College.  This  is  attested  by  their  published 
requirements  for  membership,  under  which  our  application  was  made 
some  months  ago.  These  requirements  are  quoted  below: 


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REQUIREMENTS  FOR  MEMBERSHIP 

I.  Academic  Standard.  For  the  present  the  Association  will  use 
as  its  standard  for  acamedic  rating  the  list  of  colleges  recommended 
by  the  Association  of  American  Universities  to  foreign  universities, 
containing  not  only  those  institutions  which  are  on  the  accepted  list  of 
the  Carnegie  Foundation  but  also  those  which  are  certified  by  this 
Foundation  as  of  equivalent  standing  but  excluded  from  its  accepted 
list  for  other  than  educational  reasons. 

II.  Additional  Requirements.  An  institution,  the  graduates  of 
which  may  be  admitted,  must  show  the  following  additional  qualifica¬ 
tions:  1.  There  shall  be  a  reasonable  recognition  of  women  in  the  fac¬ 
ulty  and  in  the  student  body,  and  proper  provision  for  the  intellectual 
and  social  needs  of  women  students.  2.  Much  weight  shall  be  given 
to  the  fact  where  women  are  on  the  Board  of  Trustees,  especially  in 
women’s  colleges.  3.  In  the  consideration  of  a  co-educational  institu¬ 
tion  great  weight  shall  be  given  to  the  fact  that  such  institution  has 
a  dean  or  advisor  of  women,  above  the  rank  of  instructor,  who  is 
counted  a  regular  member  of  the  faculty.  4.  Women  on  the  faculty 
shall  receive  the  same  salaries  as  men  of  the  same  rank.  5.  No  co¬ 
educational  institution  shall  be  considered  in  which  there  is  not  spec¬ 
ial  provision,  through  halls  of  residence  or  other  buildings,  for  the  so¬ 
cial  life  of  the  women  students. 

Procedure:  I.  A  college  or  universitv  that  meets  the  academic 
requirement  named  above  may  be  brought  up  for  consideration  by  the 
Committee*  on  the  Recognition  of  Colleges  and  Universities.  II.  If 
approved  by  the  Committee  the  name  of  such  college  or  university  is 
proposed  to  the  Branches  of  the  Association.  III.  If  no  information 
received  from  the  Branches  renders  postponement  advisable,  the 
name  of  the  college  or  university  is  presented  to  the  Council.  Upon 
the  favorable  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  of  the  Council, 
tl  e  alumnae  of  such  college  or  university  are  made  eligible  to  the  As¬ 
sociation. 


*Committee  on  Recognition  of  Colleges  and  Universities:  Miss 
Marion  Reilly,  Chairman,  Penny  groves,  Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.;  Miss  Flor¬ 
ence  M.  Fitch,  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio;  Mrs.  Gertrude  S.  Mar¬ 
tin,  934  Stewart  Ave.,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.;  Miss  Eleanor  Lord,  Goucher 
College,  Baltimore,  Md.;  Miss  Jean  Palmer,  Vassar  College,  Pough¬ 
keepsie,  N.  Y. 

COLLEGES  AND  UNIVERSITIES  WHOSE  ALUMNAE  WERE 
PREVIOUSLY  ELIGIBLE  TO  MEMBERSHIP  IN  THE 
ASSOCIATION  OF  COLLEGIATE  ALUMNAE 

(From  report  of  November,  1916) 

Barnard  College  Massachusetts  Inst,  of  Technology 

Beloit  College  University  of  Michigan 

Boston  University  University  of  Minnesota 

Women’s  College,  Brown  University  University  of  Missouri 
Bryn  Mawr  College  Mount  Holyoke  College 

University  of  California  The  University  of  Nebraska 

Carleton  College  Northwestern  University 


CORNELL  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


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University  of  Chicago 

University  of  Cincinnati 

Colorado  College 

University  of  Colorado 

Cornell  University 

De  Pauw  University 

Drake  University 

Earlham  College 

Elmira  College 

Goucher  College 

Grinnell  College 

University  of  Illinois 

Indiana  University 

The  State  University  of  Iowa 

University  of  Kansas 

Knox  College 

Lake  Forest  College 

Lawrence  College 

Leland  Stanford  Jr.  University 


University  of  North  Dakota 
Oberlin  College 
Ohio  State  University 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University 
Pomona  College 
Purdue  University 
Radcliffe  College 
University  of  Rochester 
Smith  College 
Swarthmore  College 
Syracuse  University 
Trinity  College 
Vassar  College 

Washington  University  (St.  Louis) 
University  of  Washington  (Seattle) 
Wells  College 
Wellesley  College 
Western  Reserve  University 
University  of  Wisconsin 


The  Foreign  and  American  Universities  whose  higher  degrees  ad¬ 
mit  to  membership  in  the  Association  are:  Clark  University,  Colum¬ 
bia  University,  Johns  Hopkins  University,  McGill  University,  Univers¬ 
ity  of  Pennsylvania,  University  of  Toronto,  Yale  University  and  the 
non-professional  doctorate  conferred  by: 


Great  Britain:  London,  Durham, 
Manchester,  Birmingham,  Liv¬ 
erpool,  Sheffield,  Leeds,  Bris¬ 
tol,  Glasgow,  Aberdeen,  St.  An¬ 
drews,  Edinburgh,  Wales. 

Ireland :  Dublin  (Trinity  Col¬ 
lege),  Belfast,  National  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Ireland. 

Holland :  Amsterdam,  Gronin¬ 
gen,  Leiden,  Utrecht. 

Belgium:  Brussels,  Ghent,  Lou¬ 
vain,  Liege. 

Scandinavia:  Copenhagen,  Up- 
sala,  Christiania,  Lund. 

Master  of  Arts  and  Master  of 

Great  Britian:  London,  Durham, 
Manchester,  Birmingham,  Liv¬ 
erpool,  Sheffield,  Leeds,  Bris¬ 
tol,  Wales. 


Switzerland:  Basle,  Berne,  Fri¬ 
bourg,  Geneva,  Lausanne,  Zu¬ 
rich. 

Germany:  Berlin,  Bonn,  Breslau, 
Gottingen,  Greifswald,  Halle, 
Kiel,  Konigsberg,  Jena,  Ros¬ 
tock,  Heidelberg,  Strassburg, 
Freiburg,  Tubingen,  Marburg, 
Munster,  Munich,  Erlangen, 
Wurzburg,  Leipzig,  Giessen. 

France:  Paris,  Lyons,  Lille,  Bor¬ 
deaux,  Toulouse,  Dijon,  Mont¬ 
pelier,  Caen,  Grenoble,  Aix, 
Marseilles,  Rennes,  Nancy, 
Clermont-Ferrand,  Besancon, 
Poitiers. 

Science  conferred  by: 

Ireland:  Dublin  (Trinity)  Bel¬ 
fast,  National  University  of 
Ireland,  Dublin. 


Master  of  Science  conferred  by: 

Scotland:  Glasgow,  Aberdeen,  St.  Andrews,  Edinburgh. 


As  will  be  seen  from  the  above,  Cornell  College  is  one 
of  only  four  institutions  in  Iowa  honored  by  membership 
in  this  organization,  the  others  being  Drake,  Grinnell  and 
the  State  University. 

Only  six  other  Methodist  institutions  besides  Cornell 


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have  been  admitted.  Cornell  is  not  only  the  only  Methodist 
College  in  Iowa  so  recognized,  but  IS  THE  ONLY  METHO¬ 
DIST  COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY  WEST  OF  CHICAGO 
included  in  the  membership. 

THE  PURPOSE  OF  THE  ASSOCIATION 

The  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae  is  a  National  Association 
of  college  women  with  seventy-five  Branches  throughout  the  country. 
It  was  founded  in  Boston  in  1882,  by  a  group  of  women  representing 
a  half  dozen  colleges  of  high  academic  standlard,  for  the  purpose  of 
uniting  the  alumnae  of  different  institutions  for  practical  educational 
work,  for  the  collection  and  publication  of  statistical  and  other  infor¬ 
mation  concerning  education,  and  for  the  maintenance  of  higher 
standards  of  education  in  general.  It  endeavors  to  fulfil  these  pur¬ 
poses  through  the  national  organization  and  through  its  local 
Branches. 

Each  Branch  is  a  local  club  that  makes  for  pleasant  acquaintance 
and  friendliness  while  doing  educational,  civic  and  social  work  in  the 
community  and  in  co-operation  with  the  National  Committees  and 
Conferences  on: 

I.  Fellowships  for  Graduate  Study  in  Europe  and  America. 
Under  this  Committee  there  are  awarded  each  year  several  fellow¬ 
ships  for  graduate  study. 

II.  Educational  Legislation — state  and  national.  This  Commit¬ 
tee  not  only  studies  present  and  proposed  legislation  and  uses  influ¬ 
ence  to  further  desirable  and  prevent  undesirable  legislation;  but 
through  Committees  in  local  branches  it  is  initiating  local  legislation 
to  secure  needed  improvements  in  the  schools. 

III.  Vocational  Opportunities  in  gainful  occupations  other  than 
teaching.  This  Committee  is  doing  very  important  work  in  the  in¬ 
vestigation  of  the  widening  field  of  opportunity  open  to  women.  It 
has  published:  1.  A  Vocational  Bulletin.  2.  A  Bulletin  on  Oppor¬ 
tunities  in  Domestic  Science.  3.  An  Occupational  Census  of  College 
Women.  This  Committee  encourages  the  establishment  of  Bureaus 
of  Occupation  for  the  guidance  and  placement  of  college  women. 

IV.  Volunteer  Service.  This  Committee  endeavors  to  make  ef¬ 
fective  for  social  service  the  training  and  power  of  those  college  wo¬ 
men  who  can  afford  to  give  their  services  without  remuneration  in  all 
sorts  of  social  betterment  movements. 

V.  , Foreign  Students.  This  Comittee  is  trying  to  bring  about  a 
better  understanding  and  more  cordial  relations  between  our  own  and 
foreign  countries  by  encouraging  the  entrance  into  our  colleges  and 
universities  of  foreign  women  students  who  can  in  time  interpret 
their  people  to  us  and  us  to  them. 

VI.  Cooperation  with  Government  Bureaus ,  particularly  the 
Children’s  Bureau,  the  Labor  Bureau  and  the  Bureau  of  Immigration. 

MEMBERSHIP 

I.  CORPORATE 

Affiliated  Membership.  Any  General  Association  of  Alumnae  of  an 


CORNELL  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


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A.  C.  A.  college  may  become  an  Affiliated  Member  of  the  A.  C.  A. 
II.  INDIVIDUAL 

General  Membership.  This  is  open  to  any  alumna  of  any  A.  C.  A. 
college  upon  the  payment  of  annual  dues  of  one  dollar  to  the  Na¬ 
tional  Treasurer.  This  membership  entitles  the  holder  to  the  A. 
C.  A.  Journal.  General  members  have  all  the  rights  and  privi¬ 
leges  of  the  Association. 

Branch  Membership 

1.  Regular  Membership.  Any  alumna  of  an  A.  C.  A.  college 
who  joins  a  local  Branch  of  the  A.  C.  A.  thereby  becomes  a 
member  of  the  National  organization  as  well,  and  is  entitled  to 
the  same  rights  and  privileges  as  a  general  member,  execpt  that 
her  representation  in  the  Council  and  in  the  General  Association 
is  counted  through  her  Branch. 

2.  Associate  Membership  (Ex-Students) .  Associate  members 
in  a  Branch  are  those  women  who  have  pursued  at  least  one 
year’s  full  academic  work  in  any  college  granting  a  B.  A.  degree, 
and  who  have  been  elected  by  the  Branch  to  Associate  member¬ 
ship.  The  rights  and  privileges  of  Associate  members,  as  well  as 
the  amount  of  their  dues,  are  regulated  by  the  Branch  itself. 
They  are  not  eligible  to  National  Membership  and  pay  no  nation¬ 
al  dues.  No  Branch  is  required  to  admit  Associate  members  if  it 
does  not  so  desire. 

Each  Branch  does  local  work  of  its  own  choosing  although  it  is 
also  expected  to  co-operate  with  one  or  more  of  the  National  Com¬ 
mittees.  The  work  of  the  Branches  is  as  varied  as  their  geographical 
distribution,  and  many  of  the  finest  achievements  of  college  women 
in  this  country  have  been  initiated  and  carried  out  by  A.  C.  A. 
Branches.  At  the  present  time  they  are  working  along  all  lines  of 
educational,  civic,  and  social  betterment. 

Another  Gratifying  Announcement 

A  few  weeks  ago  our  College  constituency  was  stirred  by  the  an¬ 
nouncement  of  the  General  Education  Board  of  New  York  that  a  con¬ 
ditional  appropriation  of  $100,000  had  been  made  to  Cornell. 

This  second  grant  to  our  College  is  of  special  significance  and  is 
a  striking  testimonial  to  its  standing  and  worth. 

The  General  Education  Board  was  founded  in  1902  by  John  D. 
Rockefeller  for  “the  promotion  of  education  within  the  United  States 
of  America  without  distinction  of  race,  sex  and  creed.”  A  number  of 
the  most  able  educators  and  public  benefactors  of  the  country  com¬ 
pose  its  membership.  It  is  superior  to  all  “pull”  or  special  influence, 
deciding  all  its  gifts  on  the  basis  given  in  the  next  paragraph.  It  puts 
“no  pressure,  direct  or  indirect,  upon  any  College  or  University  with 
a  view  to  influencing  its  course  of  action”  and  has  left  “to  the  discre¬ 
tion  of  every  institution  with  which  it  has  in  any  way  had  relations 
complete  power  to  shape  its  own  course,  externally  and  internally.” 
It  gives  just  as  readily  to  denominational  Colleges  as  to  others. 


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The  basis  on  which  it  makes  appropriations,  as  set  forth  in  its 
own  words,  reads: 

“In  general  it  may  be  said  that  the  Board  seeks  to  assist  in  the 
further  development  of  well  established  institutions,  which  appear  to 
be  ‘necessary  factors  in  a  well  organized  and  well  distributed  per¬ 
manent  system  of  higher  education/  Before  making  appropriations, 
careful  investigation  is  made  to  determine  WHETHER  AN  INSTI¬ 
TUTION  IS  ‘NECESSARY’,  in  the  sense  that,  if  it  did  not  exist  or 
were  not  further  developed,  the  higher  education  of  the  constituency 
which  it  now  serves  would  be  seriously  hampered;  WHETHER  THE 
INSTITUTION  IS  REASONABLY  WELL  LOCATED,  in  the  sense 
that  no  other  stronger  institution,  doing  substantially  the  same  ser¬ 
vice,  is  already  sufficiently  accessible;  finally,  WHETHER  THE  IN¬ 
STITUTION  IS  LIKELY  TO  BE  ‘PERMANENT’  in  the  sense  that 
it  has  already  passed  beyond  the  tentative  stage.” 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  most  thorough  and  searching  investi¬ 
gation  is  made  of  all  Colleges,  their  field,  their  work  and  their  future, 
before  favorable  consideration,  no  possible  recognition  of  Cornell 
College  could  be  more  significant,  more  flattering,  or  more  gratifying. 

An  even  more  significant  consideration  is  the  fact  that  this  is  the 
second  $100,000  appropriation  for  Cornell. 

During  the  fifteen  years  since  the  Board  was  organized  it  has 
aided  by  gifts  110  of  the  700  Colleges  and  Universities  of  the  United 
States  with  appropriations  averaging  about  $95,000  each.  Of  these 
700  Colleges  and  Universities,  only  31,  including  Cornell  College,  have 
received  a  second  appropriation,  and  each  appropriation  to  Cornell 
has  been  above  the  average  amount. 

But — 

the  above  gift  is  conditional.  It  is  not  ours  yet,  and  the  obtaining  of 
it  depends  on  the  loyalty  and  sacrifice  of  our  constituency.  In  brief 
we  must  have  $650,000  including  their  gift,  $400,000  for  endowment 
and  $250,000  for  buildings  and  improvements.  Their  gift  is  for  and 
on  the  endowment  part  only,  but  the  campaign  by  previous  decision 
and  arrangement  must  include  the  buildings  and  improvements. 

Plans  are  being  made  for  the  campaign  which  must  be  launched 
soon,  and  concluded  about  a  year  hence. 

The  war  has  disturbed  but  not  dismayed  us.  We  cannot  evade 
nor  can  we  postpone;  we  must  proceed. 

Every  Cornellian  will  have  to  appropriate  the  largest  possible 
amount  for  benevolent  purposes  for  the  next  six  years  and  apply  the 
bulk  of  it  to  Christian  higher  education  through  Cornell  College.  Only 
thus  can  we  win  out  and  make  ours  this  $100,000  from  the  General 
Education  Board. 


CORNELL  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


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THE  MAY  MUSIC  FESTIVAL. 

May  24,  25  and  26  are  the  dates  for  the  nineteenth  Annual  Cor¬ 
nell  Music  Festival.  Quoted  from  the  May  Festival  announcement, 
the  attractions  this  year  are:  Alma  Gluck,  the  most  popular  concert 
soprano  in  an  entire  evening  of  the  most  attractive  songs;  Efrem 
Zimbalist,  the  most  magnetic  of  the  younger  violinists;  Lambert 
Murphy,  a  really  great  festival  tenor;  Bertha  Hart,  a  thoroughly 
satisfying  pianist;  the  Oratorio  Society,  a  splendid  chorus  of  150 
voices  in  the  ever  enjoyable  Hiawatha's  Wedding  Feast ;  Frederick 
Stock,  one  of  the  world’s  foremost  conductors;  and  the  Chicago  Or¬ 
chestra,  the  best  symphony  orchestra  in  their  only  festival  appear¬ 
ance  west  of  Chicago  and  their  fifteenth  consecutive  appearance  at 
the  Cornell  Music  Festival. 

There  are  as  usual  five  concerts,  the  first  one  coming  on  Thurs¬ 
day  evening.  The  talent  engaged  for  these  festivals  has  always  been 
of  the  highest  order.  The  above  enumeration  of  the  superior  attrac¬ 
tions  of  the  present  year  is  more  eloquent  than  extended  comment 
cofcld  be  to  those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  musical  world.  Mme. 
Gluck’s  coming  is  her  first  appearance  at  any  Iowa  festival.  The 
whole  program  is  under  the  management  of  the  Cornell  College  Con¬ 
servatory  of  Music  with  Professor  Frank  H.  Shaw  as  director. 


THE  SIXTY-FOURTH  COMMENCEMENT. 

A  Change  in  Program — Commencement  Day  Address  to  be  at  10  A.M. 

Commencement  Day  this  year  comes  on  June  6.  It  is  about  a 
week  earlier  than  heretofore  and  on  Wednesday  instead  of  Thursday. 
The  Baccalaureate  Sermon  will  be  preached  on  Sunday,  June  3,  by 
President  Charles  W  .Flint,  and  the  address  at  Evening  Vespers  will 
be  delivered  by  Rev.  Dr.  Elmer  E.  Higley  of  Des  Moines.  The 
alumni  orator  is  Rev.  Fred  J.  Clark,  ’05,  of  Omaha,  and  the  speaker 
of  Commencement  Day  is  Hon.  Frederick  M.  Davenport,  Professor  of 
Political  Science  in  Hamilton  College,  New  York.  Professor  Daven¬ 
port  was  member  of  the  New  York  senate  in  1909-10  and  nominee 
for  governor  in  1914.  He  has  been  otherwise  prominent  in  public 
life  and  as  special  correspondent  for  the  New  York  Outlook  numer¬ 
ous  articles  have  appeared  from  his  pen  in  that  journal. 

This  year  marks  the  Sixtieth  Anniversity  of  the  organization 
of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts.  The  institution  began  as  a  “Semin¬ 
ary”  or  Academy  and  its  first  four  June  commencement  exercises 
were  under  that  organization.  In  1857  the  College  was  organized  and 
in  1858  a  class  of  two  was  graduated.  These  two  became  husband 
and  wife  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Matthew  Cavanagh  settled  in  Iowa  City 
where  they  are  still  living.  Next  year  will  mark  the  sixtieth  anni¬ 
versary  of  their  graduation. 


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In  celebration  of  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  organization  of 
the  College  this  year,  the  senior  class  had  planned  to  preesnt  a  Cor¬ 
nell  Historical  Pageant  instead  of  the  usual  Commencement  orations. 
The  Pageant  was  to  present  epochal  and  characteristic  scenes  in  the 
life  of  the  college  from  the  earliest  times,  and  was  scheduled  for  the 
morning  of  Commencement  Day.  This  number  on  the  printed  pro¬ 
gram,  already  sent  out,  has  had  to  be  given  up  on  account  of  the  ex¬ 
traordinary  conditions.  A  number  of  the  men  who  had  been  assigned 
to  important  parts  are  now  in  the  military  training  camps.  The 
Commencement  Addlress,  therefore,  and  Conferring  of  Degrees  will 
occur  at  10  A.  M.,  instead  of  2  P.  M.,  as  on  the  printed  program  sent 
out,  and  the  President’s  Reception  will  be  from  3-5  in  the  afternoon. 

Alumni  Day  will  be  Tuesday  instead  of  Wednesday  as  hereto¬ 
fore.  The  “key”  to  the  campus  is  delivered  especially  to  the  “sevens” 
this  year — the  classes  from  1857  to  1917,  and  the  classes  of  ’14  and 
’16  being  especially  scheduled  for  reunions.  The  Alumni  Dinner 
comes  at  4:30  in  the  Alumni  Gymnasium. 

HIGH  SCHOOL  STUDENTS  ARE  CORNELL  GUESTS. 

Vocational  Conference  and  Girls’  Grex — The  Interscholastic 

On  April  26  and  27  occurred  the  Girls’  Vocational  Conference  and 
the  Girls’  Grex.  The  principal  speakers  were  Miss  Helen  Bennett, 
chairman  of  the  Bureau  of  Occupations  for  Collegiate  Women,  in 
Chicago,  who  gave  two  addresses;  Judge  Mary  Bartleme,  of  the  Chi¬ 
cago  Juvenile  Court,  who  gave  two  addresses;  Miss  Jenette  Lewis, 
county  superintendent  of  Calhoun  county;  Miss  Mary  Gaston,  super¬ 
vising  community  nurse  in  Cedar  Rapids;  and  Miss  Alice  R.  Betts, 
experienced  in  secretarial  work  in  New  York  City.  The  Girls’  Grex, 
the  annual  breakfast,  held  in  the  Gymnasium,  was  the  main  social 
feature  of  the  two  days.  To  the  Conference  and  the  Grex  many  high 
high  school  girls  in  the  surrounding  territory  were  invited  and  the 
invitation  was  accepted  by  sixty  or  more  of  them  for  an  enjoyable 
and  profitable  time.  The  Grex  is  a  nicely  appointed  affair  attended 
by  practically  all  the  girls  and  accompanied  by  a  program  of  toasts. 

A  week  later,  June  5,  came  the  Interscholastic  Meet.  Track  teams 
came  from  high  schools  as  far  west  as  Marshalltown  and  as  far  east 
as  Freeport,  Illinois.  The  Cornell  Meet  is  popular  with  the  high 
school  boys  as  one  of  the  “snappiest”  in  the  state.  One  of  the  attrac¬ 
tive  features  is  the  largely  attended  banquet  given  the  visitors  in  the 
gymnasium  at  six  o’clock  in  the  evening,  when,  in  addition  to  the  eat¬ 
ing,  there  are  speeches  and  music  and  the  presentation  of  medals  to 
the  winners.  An  entertainment  is  provided  for  the  evening  also — here¬ 
tofore  a  drama  but  this  year  the  home  concert  of  the  Men’s  Glee  Club. 
Everything  is  free  to  the  visitors  and  a  fine  spirit  prevails.  Of  the 
twenty  high  schools  which  were  entered  in  the  meet  this  year,  seven- 


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teen  sent  teams  and  eleven  won  places.  Marshalltown  took  first  place 
with  24  points. 

DEATHS 

Dr.  Hugh  Boyd  died  at  Mount  Vernon,  March  6,  after  prolonged 
illness.  Dr.  Boyd  had  a  host  of  friends  and  admirers  in  the  alumni. 
Beginning  in  1871,  he  served  the  college  for  ten  years  as  professor  of 
Greek  and  Latin  and  for  twenty-five  as  professor  of  Latin.  He  was 
acting  president  for  one  year. 

Captain  E.  B.  Soper,  LL.  D.,  ’78,  died  suddenly  at  Kansas  City, 
March  21,  while  on  his  way  home  from  the  South  in  company  with 
Mrs.  Soper.  He  was  one  of  the  stanchest,  most  devoted  and  most 
valued  supporters  Cornell  ever  had.  He  was  for  thirty-one  years 
member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  for  thirty-nine  years  mem¬ 
ber  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  which  he  was  president  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  Memorial  pamphlets  are  in  preparation  for  both  Cap¬ 
tain  Soper  and  Dr.  Boyd. 

Harold  E.  Bowman,  ’92,  died  November  26,  1916,  at  Norfolk,  Vir¬ 
ginia.  He  was  inspector  in  the  U.  S.  Immigration  Service. 

Myra  Maurer,  T4,  died  at  Ottawa,  Illinois,  April  18,  after  an 
illness  of  almost  a  year.  She  engaged  in  teaching  after  graduation. 


CORNELL  AND  THE  WAR, 

The  old  patriotism,  so  pronounced  at  Cornell  in  “the  sixties”, 
promptly  manifested  itself  in  the  present  crisis,  Cornell’s  was  among 
the  earliest  applications,  to  the  national  government  for  an  officer  to 
re-establish  military  training  on  the  Campus,  This  procedure  result¬ 
ed  from  faculty  deliberation  and  an  urgent  petition  signed  by  prac¬ 
tically  all  the  men  students.  Specially  appointed  mass  meetings  were 
held  early  and  the  regular  chapel  assemblies  took  oh  the  same  general 
character.  Before  an  officer  could  be  secured,  drill  was  organized 
under  the  direction  of  the  Commandant  and  officers  of  cadets  from 
the  State  University,  and  Sergeant  Harold  Jordan,  T2,  of  the  Nation¬ 
al  Guard.  Lieutenant  J.  H.  Dreibelbis,  Reserve  Officer  of  the  Nation¬ 
al  Guard,  was  later  appointed  by  Adj.  General  Logan  to  the  post  of 
Commandant  at  Cornell  and  has  been  surprised  at  the  rapidity  and 
ease  with  which  the  three  companies  have  been  mastering  the  details 
of  drill.  The  men  have  made  good  use  of  the  drill  manuals  with 
which  they  supplied  themselves  early.  Reviews  and  parades,  with  an 
unusually  good  band,  have  proven  the  excellent  work  of  commandant 
and  men.  The  companies  include  practically  all  the  men  students  and 
some  members  of  the  faculty — universal  military  training  at  Cornell. 
Many  of  the  men  applied  for  appointment  to  the  military  training 
camps  and  on  the  first  call  fifteen,  including  two  members  of  the  fac¬ 
ulty,  received  appointments  and  are  now  in  the  camps.  There  have 


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been  a  number  of  enlistments  by  present  and  former  students  and 
alumni,  and  some  alumni  have  received  commissions.  Others  have 
joined  the  army  of  food  producers  and  are  now  on  the  farms. 

The  women  of  Cornell  are  included  in  the  universal  training.  At 
the  morning  hour  for  drill,  obtained  by  shortening  the  class  hours, 
the  young  women  are  receiving  regular  class  instruction  in  first  aid 
relief  and  in  nursing.  The  members  of  these  classes  are  registered 
at  the  Red  Cross  headquarters  in  Washington  and  are  preparing  to 
take  the  examinations  sent  out  from  there.  The  First  Aid  classes, 
which  have  a  combined  membership  of  300,  are  under  the  instruction 
of  a  number  of  physicians  in  the  community.  The  cla§s  of  46  in 
nursing  is  under  the  instruction  of  a  registered  nui»se  fro^ti  Dubuque. 


Frank  Persons,  1900,  has  been  appointed  director  of  the  Red 
Cross  organization  in  the  United  States  and  has  removed  from  New 
York  to  Washington. 

Professor  S.  L.  Cjiandler  will  have  charge  of  the  courses  in  Soci¬ 
ology  at  Northwestern  University  during  the  coming  summer  session. 

Professor  O.  H.  Smith  read  a  paper  at  the  meeting  of  the  North 
Eastern  Iowa  Teachers  Association. 

Charles  E.  Persons,  ’03,  professor  in  Economics  in  Washington 
University,  St.  Louis,  contributed  to  the  April  Educational  Review  a 
22  page  paper  on  “The  Introductory  Course  in  Economics.” 

Earl  Gammons,  ’15,  and  Merle  Manly,  ’16,  who  have  been  on  the 
Cedar  Rapids  Republican  and  Times  have  accepted  places  with  the 
Minneapolis  Tribune  and  Des  Moines  Register  and  Leader  respect¬ 
ively. 

Albert  M.  Walker,  ’08,  has  received  the  commission  of  Major  of 
Engineers  in  the  Officers  Reserve  Corps  of  the  U.  S.  Army.  He  has 
been  Topographic  Engineer  in  the  U.  S.  Geological  Survey. 

Ethel  Ryan,  ’14,  who  has  been  taking  advanced  courses  in  physi¬ 
cal  training  this  year  at  Columbia  University,  has  been  appointed 
Director  of  Physical  Training  for  Women  at  Lawrence  College,  Wis. 

G.  Avery  Reeder,  ’97,  who  has  been  International  Secretary  of 
the  Army  and  Navy  Department  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  has  been  com¬ 
missioned  a  Major  in  the  regular  army. 

George  B.  Mangold,  ’01,  Director  of  the  St.  Louis  School  of  So¬ 
cial  Economy,  is  author  of  a  40  page  discussion  of  the  “Public  Treat¬ 
ment  of  Drunkenness  in  St.  Louis”,  in  the  Washington  University 
Studies. 

James  E.  Bromwell,  *81,  of  Marion,  is  now  Grand  Eminent  Com¬ 
mander  for  Iowa  of  the  Knights  Templar. 

Howard  L.  Kern,  ’07,  Attorney  General  of  Porto  Rico,  gives  con¬ 
siderable  space  to  a  discussion  of  the  new  juvenile  court  in  his  last 
fiscal  report. 

A.  E.  Murley,  15,  has  been  promoted  to  be  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Marion. 

W.  Burt  Millen,  ’06,  who  was  Cornell  Rhodes  Scholar  at  Oxford, 
England,  1908-11,  is  now  proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Saturday  Night , 
published  at  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

The  Baseball  season  has  so  far  (May  16)  failed  to  record  a 
single  defeat  for  the  Cornell  team,  the  State  University  and  Ames 
being  numbered  among  the  victims. 


